Medical English for Academic Purposes: The Impact of a New Guide for Postgraduates on Developing Specific Communication Skills

Barnau, Anna; Ferková, Nina

doi:10.21125/iceri.2022.0329

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“…As mentioned in the Introduction, our original hypothesis regarding the problematic use of academic English by academics at all levels, was that the issues were probably related not only to grammar but also to lexis. One measure that may alleviate this is intervention at an early stage, helping young academics to develop effective strategies that support their writing (Barnau & Ferková, 2022;Basturkmen & Wette, 2016). Academic English courses provided by our department tend to be limited, 40-hour intensive courses, which are offered annually to postgraduate students, although general English courses are also available to them in the university language centre.…”

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From learner corpus to data-driven learning (DDL): Improving lexical usage in academic writing

HArtle

2023

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Despite considerable discussion in the literature (Flowerdew & Peacock, 2001; Hyland, 1998; Tang, 2012) competent English academic writing is still a problem which needs to be solved. English for Academic Purposes (EAP) teaching often focuses on specialized lexis, which may, however, be the area where academic writers need least help. The study of a small corpus of C2 level academic writing which consisted of the sub-genres of summary and discussion writing revealed that one key area which is problematic is collocation. This paper presents the results of this small corpus investigation into learner language and how it informed the classroom implementation of data-driven learning (DDL) to increase learner awareness of and ability to use collocations effectively in written academic English. The article briefly describes the corpus and the resulting teaching procedure adopted. The first step of this procedure is familiarization followed by experimentation using Sketch Engine (SkeLL).

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From learner corpus to data-driven learning (DDL): Improving lexical usage in academic writing

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2023

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Medical English for Academic Purposes: The Impact of a New Guide for Postgraduates on Developing Specific Communication Skills

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From learner corpus to data-driven learning (DDL): Improving lexical usage in academic writing

From learner corpus to data-driven learning (DDL): Improving lexical usage in academic writing

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